Some men are created equal

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http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/23498

By Gil Smart, Associate News Editor
Sunday News

Published: Jun 17, 2006 11:39 PM EST

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Ah, well, what a shame.

Looks like state Rep. Scott Boyd’s Hate the Gay bill may wind up on the trash heap, where it belongs.


Last week a state Senate panel voted to affirm part of Boyd’s nonsense, agreeing that marriage should be defined as one man and one woman. But in doing so, it rejected the second half of the nonsense, a prohibition against civil unions or any other legal accommodation for gay couples.


This had the knickers of the bill’s proponents in a collective twist, wrote the Associated Press, because it would “scuttle the intent” of Boyd’s original bill.


Which was, of course, to discriminate.


And because state law requires the House and Senate to pass identical measures in two consecutive legislative sessions before citizens get the chance to vote on a constitutional amendment, Pennsylvanians might not get an opportunity to Hate the Gay in 2007.


Make no mistake, Boyd is trying to keep hate alive, but the problem is that the Legislature has some, you know, actual business to conduct between now and the end of the session.


And so backers of the bill may have to wait to hate. I’m sure that’s exactly what they’ll do.


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Gil Smart is associate news editor of the Sunday News. E-mail him at [e-mail], or phone [phone].

[spag68]

1. gay stuff

I'm a straight married man, but I just can't get my head around why these people get their bowels in an uproar over gays or anyone whose actions have absolutely no affect on their lives.Oh wait now I remember, it's to get all the springer triangle people to vote against their own self interests. The leaders the rethug party should absolutely be ashamed of themselves, but that would mean they feel shame at all, in their delusional state. All men and women are created equal.

[Bgno64]

2. Republicans are basically opposed to the American ideal.

Don'tcha think the Democratic Party could get a little mileage out of that?

[spag68]

3. mileage

Maybe so,but I think if the rethugs keep up this crap sooner or later it will bite them. By the way, way to go big ben, out of the hospital and promising to wear a helmet.

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